Adding or removing UNIX subordinate servers

Adding or removing UNIX-based subordinate
servers

Using the Windows interface

The following procedures are carried out in the
Identity Management for UNIX management console.

Adding a UNIX-based subordinate
server

To add a UNIX-based subordinate
server

Open the Identity Management for UNIX management
console by clicking Start, pointing to Administrative
Tools, and then clicking MicrosoftIdentity
Management for UNIX.

You can also open the Identity Management for UNIX
management console from within Server Manager, by expanding
Roles and then Active Directory Domain Services in
the hierarchy pane, and then selecting Microsoft Identity
Management for UNIX.

In the console tree, expand Server for NIS and
view the list of Network Information Service (NIS) domains.

In the domain you want to modify, click the NIS
Servers node.

In the results pane, select the UNIX-based subordinate
server that you want to remove.

With the computer selected in the results pane, do one
of the following:

Right-click the computer, and then click
Delete.

Click Delete in the Actions
pane.

On the Action menu, click
Delete.

If you are sure you want to delete the computer from
control by this domain, click OK when prompted by Server for
NIS.

Using a command line

Note

To view the complete syntax for this command, at a command
prompt, type: nismap /?

To add or remove UNIX-based
subordinate servers by using the command line

To add a UNIX-based subordinate server, at a command
prompt, type the following, where Subordinate represents the
name or IP address of the computer you want to add, and
NISDomain represents the name of the NIS domain to which you
want to add the computer.

nismap add -e"Subordinate"-aNISDomainypservers

To remove a server, at a command prompt, type the
following, where Subordinate represents the name or IP
address of the computer you want to remove, and NISDomain
represents the name of the NIS domain from which you want to remove
the computer.

nismap del -kSubordinate-aNISDomainypservers

Press ENTER.

The following table describes the parameters for the
nismap command that are used in this procedure. For more about the
nismap command, see nismap.

Argument

Description

add

Adds a map entry. The following options and arguments are used
with add:

-e "mapentry" Specifies the new
map entry as a string in the appropriate NIS map format. The string
must be enclosed in quotation marks (" ").

del

Deletes an existing map entry. The following option and argument
are required with del:

-kkey Specifies the search key
that identifies the map entry to be deleted.

Subordinate

The UNIX Network Information Service (NIS) server on which you
want the nismap command to act.

NISDomain

The name of the NIS domain to which you want to add or remove
UNIX-based subordinate servers.